Following revelations that his ex-wife accused him of trespassing on her property earlier this year, former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford (R) has lost the support of his national party.

The news comes as controversy continues to swirl around Sanford and his personal life  a process that began with his well-publicized 2009 affair but was inflamed, the Washington Post has learned, when one of the Sanfords sons met Mark Sanfords former mistress for the first time the night he won the GOP nomination.

The National Republican Congressional Committee on Wednesday took the unusual step of telegraphing that it will not spend money on his special election campaign. Mark Sanford has proven he knows what it takes to win elections. At this time, the NRCC will not be engaged in this special election, the NRCC said in a statement, which was first reported by Politico.

The committee has spent very little on the race so far, but Sanfords problems have put a conservative district in jeopardy for the Republicans. And the report Tuesday of the trespassing complaint seems to assure that he wouldnt sail to victory.

A Republican familiar with the NRCCs decision criticized Sanfords lackluster response to the report about his ex-wifes trespassing complaint and said it would be foolish for anybody to spend money on him.

Its not out of the realm of possibility for him to win  stranger things have happened in special elections, the Republican said. But the fact that he wasted precious time and money rehabilitating his image only to squander that makes it very foolish for outside groups to commit resources.

Go to the state elections office online or the FEC and look for yourself. Don’t ask for something you can do yourself with relative ease. Are you a member of the dependent class? I don’t think so...hope not anyway.

The national GOP is still a bunch of amateurs. If they were on the ball, they would have found out about these issues and disclosed them during the primary. It really does amaze me how bad the national GOP is when it comes to spotting issues and getting on top of them for elections.

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posted on 04/18/2013 10:03:16 AM PDT
by Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")

Pound sand yourself, you lazy SOB. I just told you where you could find the information you WANT SOMEONE ELSE to provide you. You should be ashamed. Obviously you’re computer literate or you wouldn’t be here. Lazy you are...just like many here who are what I call CYBERCOWBABIES. Think pounding out a few pithy remarks or in your case begging for information rather than making things happen for yourself. You should be ashamed.

So, the GOPe is willing to forgive him for cheating on and very publicly humiliating his wife leading to his high-profile resignation as a Governor, but throws him overboard for an unproven charge of trespassing? Do I have that clear?

GOPe is assembling a circular firing squad. Again.

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posted on 04/18/2013 10:08:28 AM PDT
by Cyber Liberty
(I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)

I doubt that, he'll marry her or he already would have. I kind of think he wants both his wife/family and his piece from South America. If you have read Jenny's autobio you'd know that he spent the last months of his marriage begging and demanding that his wife to give him permission to be unfaithful. This is a weird weird guy--we do not want him.

He was promoted up with help from those who planned and hoped in the long run it would hurt the republicans. He should do the right thing and withdraw his name so we can replace him with another candidate.

Well, he self-destructed with spectacular speed.
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You folks do know that the original linked article was from the Washington Post, don’t you? Yes, that Washington Post that is such a good friend of conservatives and Republicans. They couldn’t possibly be trying to promote a Republican defeat—could they? And, if they were trying to engineer such a Republican defeat in a special election they wouldn’t be able to find any Useful Idiots here on Free Republic, would they?

Seriously, I supported Bostic (small donation—I’m not in SC so couldn’t vote) in the Republican runoff. But, since Sanford won the run-off, I’ll support Sanford in the general election of this special election.

I didn’t think that Sanford would need any of my small financial help, but after seeing the Washington Post (along with some apparent members of the GOPe) get on the anti-Sanford warpath, I’ll have to reconsider that assumption and donate to the Sanford campaign. I hope that those of you who are not supporting the Democrat candidate will consider donating also to this non-GOPe conservative Republican.

Looking through the comments I see a number of folks are interested in electing another Democrat to Congress—althought they’ll try to convince you their motives are pure. I know better and so should all true conservatives.

Looking through the comments I see a number of folks are interested in electing another Democrat to Congress—althought they’ll try to convince you their motives are pure. I know better and so should all true conservatives.

This guy is a walking disaster. His excuse for going into his wife’s house, he wanted to watch the Super Bowl with his 14 year old son. Why not call the son up ahead of time and bring him back to his own residence? Well that would avoid all the drama and Mark is all about the drama.

If he is such a devoted father he wouldn’t have skipped out of the country on Father’s Day 2009 to spend time with his mistress in South America.

And what a classy way to have his sons meet his former mistress/now fiancee. with the camera there to capture every uncomfortably moment for public viewing.

All I need to know about this creep is to listen to that impromptu press conference where he gushed over his mistress and their adolescent affair. He had all the emotion stability of an emo 14 year old who shows up the first day for all the Twilight movies and stalks Justin Bieber on Twitter.

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posted on 04/18/2013 10:14:35 AM PDT
by CaptainK
(...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)

I think it was the idea of a mischievous Democrat that encouraged him to get back In The race. It wouldn’t have taken much encouragement for an obsessive narcissist like MS to play on his name recognition, maybe get a few dems to vote in our primary. Voila, Colbert gets a chance she wouldn’t have gotten with a untarnished conservative. And the SCGOP better watch out for outraged conservative women who don’t think that whoring around is cute

The national GOP is still a bunch of amateurs. If they were on the ball, they would have found out about these issues and disclosed them during the primary. It really does amaze me how bad the national GOP is when it comes to spotting issues and getting on top of them for elections.

Wait, I thought folks didn't want the national GOP (aka: the GOPe) from getting involved in the primaries. Sanford was not the establishment candidate this go around. Mark "Appalachian Trail" Sanford is a selfish tool that fooled conservatives values voters in a southern, overwhelmingly Republican district to give him a second chance. LOTS of conservatives fell for this guy again - including people like Erick Erickson over at Red State who endorsed him.

For the national party it's damned if they do, damned if they don't. If they get involved, even to stop a ridiculous candidate like Christine O Donnell, the grass roots gets pissed. If they don't get involved and a bone head like Mark Sanford wins the nomination, people complain the national party didn't do anything and wonder why the RNC isn't as effective as the Democrats in terms of avoiding throwing away seats.

In my opinion, the race is a toss up at this point. If the Rats decide to go heavy on negative ads, Colbert's sister wins. If so, this district could remain Blue for quite a while as Charleston and Myrtle Beach are becoming demographically dysfunctional. More worrisome though is Tim Johnson's election bid for the Senate in 2014. Any serious challenge to Graham could suck money and enthusiasm from Johnson.

You have the right attitude about this. Sanford my be awful and it’s really disappointing that primary voters in the 1st congressional district of South Carolina nominated him, but Mr. Appalachian Trail is still better than Stephen Colbert’s uber liberal sister. Sanford is our idiot now, and anyone in this district should vote for him come the general election. If we can hold this seat maybe South Carolinian’s can primary him next time and nominate someone who isn’t a lying jackass.

In my opinion, the race is a toss up at this point. If the Rats decide to go heavy on negative ads, Colbert's sister wins. If so, this district could remain Blue for quite a while as Charleston and Myrtle Beach are becoming demographically dysfunctional. More worrisome though is Tim Johnson's election bid for the Senate in 2014. Any serious challenge to Graham could suck money and enthusiasm from Johnson.

The effrontery of politicians like Sanford. Proven immoralists, vice addicts if you please,thinking so highly of themselves that no disgrace will move them to shut up. They must run and save us-nonsense!

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posted on 04/18/2013 10:27:26 AM PDT
by AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)

I picked that pic because the woman looked so much prettier and classier than the other pictures of the mistress, and it was labeled as "mark+sanford+mistress+maria+argentina.jpg". Still, I should have noticed that the woman looked too familiar - I've worked with Nikki although not enough to recognize my mistake without warning.

The real mistress (sorry Gov. Haley!).

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posted on 04/18/2013 10:31:38 AM PDT
by Pollster1
("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)

Truly sad. Because he is a rock solid small government conservative that we NEED in Washington. I hope people will realize the alternative to Mark is unacceptable. Vote him out next cycle if you must but do not put Colbert in there.

Governor Haley inadvertently caused all of this: by selecting Scott for the Senate seat, she opened up a House seat that was highly vulnerable. Of course, DeMint caused it too, for if he had remained in the seat to which he was elected, there would be no Sanford House candidacy in 2013.

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posted on 04/18/2013 10:53:36 AM PDT
by Theodore R.
("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")

the elitist GOP yet again strikes, as usual they will probably let a Dem in and some will cheer that our best hope was to get rid of Sanford and now we’ll get a jokers wife instead and they wonder why they’re called the stupid party

Yea it seems Colberts wife is better than a republican in that seat, what on earth is wrong with our side, do they like losing all the time and think we should find the perfect person all the time for every seat.

So what if he has or been accused of trespassing, I couldn’t give a crap he’s still a hell of a lot better than a liberal in the seat/

Maybe we should keep taking out conservatives, let the establishment decide , I mean they are so better than some of us to pick our candidates ARF

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